Bootjack



UNITED STATES PATENT UEFICE.

SAMUEL B. SUMNER, OF GRANTVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOTJ ACK.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 10,016, dated September 13, 1853.

To all 'Lo/wm t may concern.'

Be it known that I, SAM. B. SUMNER, of Grantville, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Taking O' Boots; and I hereby declare the following to be an exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing7 making part of this specification, in which- A is the body of the ordinary boot jack.

B are two side bars, pivoted to the jack at the point a. These side bars are connected together by the shaft C, which is permitted to revolve around the points b, and into which is mortised the bar or handle D.

o is a hole in the handle, by which it may be hung up.

f, is the bar or bridge upon which the jack rests as usual for the purpose of raising the forked end from the ground.

Operation: One foot being placed upon the body of the jack for the purpose of keeping it steady, the heel of the other foot is placed between the jaws and the bar D, being grasped by the hand, the shaft C, is pressed down upon the toe of the boot7 by which means it is easily withdrawn.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The application to an instrument for taking off boots, of the side bars B, the shaft C, and the bar D, arranged and operating in manner substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my signature this fifth day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.

S. B. SUMNER.

Witnesses SAM COOPER, H.. B. SPINNEY. 

